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Dan announced the postman while Dorothy was pouring out the tea, and Minkie brought in a heap of letters, mostly Christmas cards. Minkie had a baker’s dozen to herself, and five of them were addressed to “Minkie and her Gang”; each of the five contained pictures of a girl, a horse, a dog, a cat, and a parrot. She soon made out by the postmark and the handwriting who had sent every card, even though the names were not given. One [Pg 22]seemed to puzzle her at first, and she slipped it into her pocket. The others were handed round, before Dorothy arranged them on the mantel-piece 충청도오피 with a number which had come by earlier deliveries, and Mr. Schwartz admired them immensely.

“It is so interesting to come back to the old country and find these pleasant customs in full swing,” he said. “I have neither sent nor received a Christmas card for years. I was telling Millicent on our way from the station that, by chance, I have been out of England at this season every year for ten years.”